Setting up a Jan Lokpal, or ombudsman, is a priority for Delhi’s new Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) government, Lt. Governor Najeeb Jung said Monday. Addressing the assembly, he said he expected the government led by Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal to fulfil all its promises. “People have voted for change (in Delhi),” he said, adding that […]
A woman teacher was suspended in Odisha for calling a minor girl a witch and sending her back from the school, an official said Monday. The incident occurred Jan 2 at a government boarding school in Keonjhar district’s Telkoi village, about 250 km from here, when a seven-year-old Class 1 student came to school after […]
Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal Monday tried to put an end to the controversy over Aam Aadmi Party leader Kumar Vishwas’s remarks on Muharram, saying he has apologised for it. “This is an old issue, at one of the poetry conventions, he (Kumar Vishwas) had said something in a satire…” said Kejriwal. “Kumar said later […]
Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal Monday said there was “no question” of having a referendum on keeping the army in Jammu and Kashmir but the feeling of the locals must be respected. “Deployment of army (in the Kashmir Valley) is a matter of internal security. There is no question of having a referendum on it,” […]
India Monday categorically came out against the violence that has plagued the parliamentary elections in Bangladesh. The external affairs ministry said that while it was for the people of Bangladesh to “decide their own future and choose their representatives”, “violence cannot and should not determine the way forward”. The ruling Awami League of Prime Minister […]
A court in Pakistan Monday rejected a petition seeking to restrain former president Pervez Musharraf from travelling abroad for medical treatment, a media report said. Rejecting the petition, the Islamabad High Court judge Shaukat Aziz Siddiqi advised petitioner Haroon Rasheed to file an application on this in the trial court, Dawn online reported. Rasheed, who […]
Shiv Sena chief Uddhav Thackeray Monday said Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal has “forfeited the moral right to speak against corruption” after taking Congress support to form a government. “In the Delhi assembly, Kejriwal has taken the support of the corrupt Congress to win the vote of confidence. If he now talks about sweeping out […]
Opposing the suggestion of a referendum on the army’s deployment in Kashmir, BJP leader Arun Jaitley Monday blamed Jawaharlal Nehru for “mismanagement” of the Kashmir issue. “The suggestion that the issue of army presence in Kashmir be decided by a referendum of the people in the valley must be opposed,” Jaitley said. He blamed Nehru, […]
The logjam in the Andhra Pradesh assembly over the debate on the bill for formation of separate Telangana state continued Monday with the Business Advisory Committee (BAC) failing to resolve it. For the third consecutive day, the house was adjourned without any debate on the Andhra Pradesh Reorganisation Bill 2013 sent by President Pranab Mukherjee […]
The Indian space agency Monday successfully completed the first orbit raising operations of its communication satellite GSAT-14. According to the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO), the first orbit raising operation of GSAT-14 was completed by firing the apogee motor for 3,134 seconds or 52 minutes. The realised orbit is 8,966 km perigee (nearest point from […]